The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-08
FACT AND FANCY.

Canauas population 10 es''""'o" Nv 'o''"
millions.
There are sixty thousand eolored Knights
OF Labor.
Twenty newspaper men will occupy seats 10
the next congress.
Chinese woodchoppers are leaving the for
ests In the vicinity OF Lake Tahoe.
Electricity can travel ossoO) miles per sec
ond under favorable circumstances.
II Is common thing for women to carry
hods and mix mortar In Vienna, Austria.
The 'SprIng Frogs" and the "Boodynouns"
are two colored base ball clubs OF Wilmington,
N. G.
There is dog In 81. GATHERINGS, Ont, that
can climb lamp-post as easily as a squirrel
can a tree.
A young man who smokes cigarettes stands
no show OF obtaining admission to the naval
or military academy.
Eighteen Alpine tourists are reported this
season to have slipped of the monnialn
side and lost their lives
BY the explosion OF a wine tank at DE- Turks
winery, at Santa Rosa CAL, recently, one
thousand gallons of wine were destroyed
II is said a resident Of Grass Valley, CAL,
can only ret out of the place by passing over
q tol-road or ascending the golden stairs.
The streets Of vicksburg, Miss, have been
lettered and the houses numbered. The new
watcr-works will be In operation b. Dec. |.
A ady found $50 gold piece In the streets
OF Woodland, Cal, one day recently, invested
Il IN lot, and In two weeks realized sl,?5l
At Walla Wala, Washington territory, II
physician was bitten the other day by pos
onous ly and his arm and neck are fearfuly
swollen.
New York has tax on lnherltanccs--a very
easy tax to pay. Within the last two years 1t
has paid over IS, 600 into the treasury o!
the state.
The Washington and Idaho Fair association
offer about $500 III premiums to be llsirIbu
ted among the lucky ones at their first annual
exhibition.
Paris where carlcaturc has reached It's high.
est and lowest development is to have an eX
hibiilon of comic art from the beginning OF
the century to the present time
The flag that noatcd over the Marshall house
Ill AlcAlliulid, W., III iooii ~" ""' ''"''NN'''
the cause of the death Of jackson and Els
worth is now In the state capitol at Albany,
y. Y.
The big tunnel near Roblnson's ferry, on the
Stanlslaus river, California, will be completed
In few days, and then the river will b; turn
ed into 1t. An lmmcns, harvest Of gold Is ex-
pected
tla, ant he (,.U
of Georgia, has received six hundred appca'
tIors for pardon. There is possibility that the
next Legislature will appoint board OF par
dons to relieve the governor.
Small Boy (at church picnic)-l say. John
ny, where's them nice ham san'wlchcs your
ma put up fer you'll These amt no goo !.
Johnny (bitterly) The superintendent aud
the teachers is a-eatin' Of 'em.
The only custom which seems to be unlvcr-
sal, according 10 gentleman who has just
completed a trip around the world is the use
of tobacco. In many places he saw the "ecd
used by woman as much as by men.
A little Indian girl said to her teacher:
ave have not prayed for the poor" Hci
teacher replied: swell, you pray for them
The little girl then said 80 Lord. bless ih,
poor aud make them fat, If you can"
The large amount Of small change used In
paying of at the numerous works around An
nision, Ala, and now in demand to pay cl,-
ton-piciers In the country, renders silver IN =
uey, ordinarily II burden to the banks, almost
.at premium.
A very pretty Sunday-school song is entitled
''Put your armor on my boys" There Is ~
old maid who does not like TO hear 1t. ~
says 1t sounds like put your arms aroun'
me, bors," and 1t always makes 'her feel s.
lonesome like.
In the midst OF fcrvent exhortatloa to sin
ners Portland revivalist, who Is by bushes B.
an auctioneer, exclaimed; "Twenty-nlnc I've
got; thirty, shall have 'em. Bless the
l.oril Twenty-nlnc are saved; who will c)H
nexli Shall have thirty"
Owing TO the effects Of prohibition, the
Rhode Island treasury is $780, 0)0 short and
there are no available funds with which tc
support the state police. Meanwhile no.
much less liquor than formerly is consume,
by the little states inhabitants.
slave you ever made any complainisW
asked Treasury Examiner 0SeS OF o OF Berg
strom, an emigrant agent, at the Castle Gar
den investigation on Wednesday ''Neverh
replied MIR. Bargstrom; we call Castle Garden
hell and don't expect to change hell"
A Cincinnati pastor, In announcing TO his
congregation that he was about to leave for
his vacation, added; "Durlng my absence
nv brother will occupy the pulpit, and viii
take great pleasure in responding to calls
especially funeral calls, from the members OF
this church while I'm away"
1t is a bit odd. but Paymastcr G. r. Watkins,
Of the United States navy, embezzler, now tn
the San Quentin Cali pcnitentiary under sen.
l.l.... f.s .hr..a or. III. 7.